St. Poemen the Great

15^th Sunday after Pentecost / Tone 6

Great Vespers: Blessed is the man.

Lord I have Cried, Tone 6, on 10: Octoechos 7; Saint 3 (What now shall we call thee); G: Saint (O venerable father); N: Sunday Dogmatic in the tone of the week.

Entry; O Gladsome Light; Prokimenon of the day, Tone 6: The Lord is King.

Aposticha: Octoechos; G: Saint (We honor thee as the instructor of monks); N: Theotokion, Tone 8 (O unwedded Virgin).

Troparia: O Theotokos and Virgin x3.

Matins: God is the Lord, Tone 6; Troparia: Resurrection x2; G: Saint (With the streams of thy tears); N: Resurrectional Theotokion, Tone 8 (O Good One).

After each Kathisma: Sessional hymns from the Octoechos.

Blessed are the blameless; Evlogitaria (The assembly of angels was amazed).

Hypakoe, Hymns of Ascents, and Prokimenon, Tone 6.

Matins Gospel 4, Luke 24:1-12 (§112).

Having beheld the resurrection; Psalm 50; G: Through the prayers of the apostles; N: Through the prayers of the Theotokos; Have mercy on me, O God; Jesus having risen. Save, O God, Thy people.

Canon: Resurrection 4 Glory to Thy Holy Resurrection, O Lord.

Cross & Resurrection 3 Glory, O Lord, to Thy precious Cross and Resurrection.

Theotokos 3 O Most Holy Theotokos, save us.

Saint 4 Venerable father Poemen, pray to God for us.

Irmos of the canon of the Resurrection, Tone 6.

Katavasia: Inscribing the invincible weapon of the Cross upon the waters.

After Ode 3, Kontakion (Today the holy memory of thy splendid struggle), Ikos, and Sessional hymn of the Saint (Tended by the Lord); G/N: Theotokion (The one Lord, Who preserved thee).

After Ode 6, Kontakion and Ikos of the Resurrection.

At Ode 9, More Honorable.

Holy is the Lord, our God.

Exapostilaria: Resurrection; G: Saint (Desiring the life of the angels); N: Resurrectional Theotokion.

Praises, Tone 6, on 8: Octoechos 8; G: Gospel Sticheron; N: Most blessed art thou. After the Great Doxology, the Troparion: Having risen; the two remaining Litanies and Resurrectional Dismissal; First Hour.

Hours: Troparia: Resurrection; G: Saint; Kontakion: Resurrection.

Liturgy: Beatitudes on 8, from the Octoechos.

After the entrance: Troparia & Kontakia as in Appendix I, B.

Prokimenon, Tone 6: Save, O Lord, Thy people. & Tone 7: Precious in the sight of the Lord.

Epistle: II Cor. 4:6-15 (§176); Gal. 5:22-6:2 (§213).

Alleluia, Tone 6 & Tone 6.

Gospel: Matt. 22:35-46 (§92); Matt. 4:25-5:12 (§10).

Communion Hymn: Praise the Lord from the heavens. & In everlasting remembrance.

Resurrectional Dismissal.